REVIEW : 7701 Grand Titan

[Guss]

Hello Hello ! back in December, I went to Paris in train , There I bought some sets and when I came back , in the train, I was so bored I made some reviews ^^ I already posted one there ( 8770 set )

Here is the second one, of a much cooler set, but I had to retake the majority of the pictures because they were too blurry, anyway if you want to see the "train pics" , they're in the gallery :

Details:

Reference: 7701

Theme: Exo-Force

Name: Grand Titan

Year : 2006

Pieces : 196

Minifig : 1

Price : I got it for 10 Euro, but it seems that it original price was 15 USD

Links : Gallery, Brickset, Peeron

Box:

That's a cool box, here is the front of it (source : Peeron )

It can open to show the set functionalities and an alternate model :

On the back of the box, you got an example of what you get if you build something with the 7701 and the 7700 :

Content:

4 bags, a sticker sheet and a manual :

A little zoom on the sticker sheet, that's a lot for a so little set, but every Exoforce set have a lot of stickers :

Manual:

Random Page of it, it's well explained, you can't miss something while building, I just miss the little pictures of the pieces used in each steps :

At the end of the build, it shows you how to put the stickers, and there you see that there is a LOT of stickers:

And of course, there is a part list at the end of the manual :

After the part list there is also a presentation of the other Exoforce sets, and the same pictures than in the box, with the alternate model you got when you use the parts from the 7701 and the 7700

The Build:

First , you build the minifig, as you can see, it have a reversible angry/more angry head , and it back isn't printed.

Then, you build the Body , with the light-up system :

Then, you build a leg, 2 times, so you obtains 2 legs, they're identical.

After this step, the end is quite easy, you just assemble the legs with the body, quickly build the arms..

Then the shoulders, and you connect the "light thing" to the left weapon.

Finally, you build the cockpit, and you're done :

Here are the extra parts you get, that's not a lot, but not bad either :

Complete Model:

It can takes some cool poses. You can notice that I didn't put the stickers on it, why ? Because I hate stickers!

From the back, it just don't looks cool, but who cares :

The cockpit opens to let the minifig jumps out :

Here it is without the minifig, you can see the part that makes it light, the cockpit is very simple, there is.. nothing! not even some stuff to pilot the mecha :

When you push the grey technic piece at the back, a red light appears, as you can see on the next picture :

A night-view of the light, here you can see that it works very well, and if you make the "gun" rotate at high speed, it gives a cool light effect to it :

Notes:

Design: 8/10

Build: 8/10

Playability: 9/10

Minifigures: 9/10

Price: 10/10

Overall: 8.5/10

Conclusion:

This is a really nice set, the light thing is cool and the mecha really can takes cool poses, it moves well and it's quite solid, plus the light thing that don't really works in pictures is really better in reality ( the light is nice ) , the only thing I don't really like is the massive use of stickers, that's why I didn't put them, it looks cool without stickers anyway. The only dark point to the playability is that the shoulders protections don't allow the arms to point at the sky ! So my final thought is that s a nice set to own, full of cool parts and it have a cool minifig, plus the price was quite low so why hesitate ?

Edited May 27, 2009 by WhiteFang
Poll added

[prateek]

hmm... this set brings back memories this is apparently the best set of all time IMO, but i dont know why

[WhiteFang]

Nice review! This is one of the Exo Force set which I had, plus the Stealth Hunter. I love the designs and the color combination is just right. One thing, I don't like about this set, is the filmsy cockpit. It seemed to drop quite often, other than that, a very good set.

Btw, the poll has been added.

[Algernon]

Mediocre in my opinion. A lot of Exo-force was like this. Overall a pretty bad theme; skeletal structures and stupid gimmicks. Not to mention the retarded generic anime minifigs...

Oh well, nice review anyway.

[Guss]

Not to mention the retarded generic anime minifigs...

I kinda like these minifigs, they're quite originals.

Btw, the poll has been added.

Thanks a lot Whitefang ^^

this is apparently the best set of all time IMO

I'll not say it's the best set of all time! I liked it, but they're plenty of sets that I think are better^^

[The Cobra]

I think the first wave of EF mecha was average, and that's what I voted. But I'm happy I bought all 4 of them for less than 40 Euros.

Thanks for the review!

[Dater]

Thanks for the review! I purchased this set last year and I am very happy with it. The other day I took a look in the manual and I saw it's possible to build an alternative version! So I went to exo-force.com only to find out the site doesn't exist anymore.

Did any of you download the manual for the alternative version before the site shut down?

I would love to build it! :)

Thank you!

[charlieboy]

First off welcome to Eurobricks! Just for future reference, posting in threads this old is not something thats all that popular on the forum but I guess you are new so you'll soon learn!

The Exo Force site can be found here-

CLICK ME

Hope that helps.

Why not introduce yourself in the newbies section

Charlieboy

Edited June 27, 2011 by charlieboy

[Blacktron]

The Titan Tracker is one of my alltime favorite exoforce secondary models. You can also find pics of all the alternative models and building inspirations here. http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=403701

I'm so thankfull, that someone saved them.

Edited June 28, 2011 by Blacktron